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Are you shutdown or always on pc user?
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Fixed2BeBroken
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i usually turn my comp off when im not at home UNLESS....i got torrents going on...so basically...i rarely turn my comp off. :lol yes...im a bittorrent whore.
Fixed2BeBroken
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Crispy said:
yea but computers do not use alot of electricity right?
Shogmaster
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Fixed2BeBroken said:
If you turn off unnecessary lights to keep the electric bill down, then you should certainly turn off your computer when you won't be using it for a good while. Even at idle, a new P4 box could be eating up like 100 Watts.
Chittagong
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Always on. My computer hasn't been off for seven years atleast.
Howlin' Mad
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Always on, it's been that way since I started college and didn't have parents telling me to turn it off anymore.
Great King Bowser
Property of Kaz Harai
When I'm BTing my laptop stays on. So that's nearly always.
I hate inefficient use of time when I'm not downloading.
+1 BT whore
I hate inefficient use of time when I'm not downloading.
+1 BT whore
Shutdown person. I can't work on a computer without restarting every 6 hours either. As soon as I feel the computer is working a bit slower due to page files/virtual memory or RAM getting fuller I need to restart (Before you ask or suggest getting more memory I have 1 GB, I'm just paranoid like that 
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I leave my computer on for three reasons:
1. I don't like waiting 20 seconds for it to boot
2. I don't pay utilities in my apartment
3. And most importantly, the front power switch is about 6 inches from the wall it's facing in my closet. So I have to bend over through my clothes to turn it on or put a CD in. Yeah, it's a pain, but my room's small enough that I thought it best to throw the computer in the walk-in closet
1. I don't like waiting 20 seconds for it to boot
2. I don't pay utilities in my apartment
3. And most importantly, the front power switch is about 6 inches from the wall it's facing in my closet. So I have to bend over through my clothes to turn it on or put a CD in. Yeah, it's a pain, but my room's small enough that I thought it best to throw the computer in the walk-in closet
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
Mine is always on. I can't stand waiting for startup.
StrikerObi
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My mac (Powerbook) is either on or asleep 99% of the time. I sleep it when I'm away from it, because sleep actually works in OS X. In my experience with Windows, sleep functions were always shitty. This thing goes to sleep and wakes up from it instantly with no performance loss (the problem I always had with Windows sleep). The only time I ever shutdown the system totally is when I'm away from it for a long time (more than 36 or maybe 48 hours), or when I'm travelling.
I've had this Powerbook running for MONTHS at a time without any performance loss over time.
I've had this Powerbook running for MONTHS at a time without any performance loss over time.
If it's just going to be sitting there idle, I turn it off. I just don't see how it makes sense not to. It's just wasting energy, and generating noise and heat while I try to sleep otherwise. Only box on 24/7 in my room is the Linux box known as my TiVo.
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
It's on as long as I'm awake. If I leave the house for a long time and no one is home, I turn it off (fear of fire). I used to leave it overnight, but stopped. I still do on ocassion. I also password lock my PC when I leave it.
I always turn it off at night, I too have the fear of fire in the basement with the PC on... we are all on the 2nd. floor so our exit would be windows if there was a fire.
If we leave the house on weekends for short trips, I will leave it on... but if we are away from the house all day, I turn it off.
So night and long time away from home... OFF!
If we leave the house on weekends for short trips, I will leave it on... but if we are away from the house all day, I turn it off.
So night and long time away from home... OFF!
madara said:
That's just one of those whacky computer myths. The equipment in your computer will crap out much quicker simply from the temperature and conditions it faces while being on then from the very minimal stress the system experiences during an initial power-up. Besides, your average computer is only good for three or four years and if it's even remotely decent equipment, it's gonna last that long through some surprisingly harsh conditions.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Always on.
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
Well...I will tell you what I read from a study they did when I was working at HP. It didn't really make too much of a difference for PC life if it was left on 24/7 or turned off after each use. Now, of course these were, "off-the-shelf, non-overclocked" units. That lab was pretty interesting. Seeing the stress tests they did was pretty cool. I do think that start-up has to be hard on the HD. It sounds rough anyway.
Great King Bowser
Property of Kaz Harai
SyNapSe said:
How do I go about setting something like that up?
dskillzhtown said:
A hard drive is probably one of the few components that would benefit from being on constantly. I don't know what the exact engineering reason behind this is, but alot of HD manufacturers claims it keeps the platters more balance, etc, as all modern HDs do forms of self-maintaince whenever they're idle. Those with Seagate HDs may notice that the HD kind of occasionally make a whirring noise when its idle, which is the drive performing wear leveling. Additionally, when HDs are first powered on, it takes quite a surge of power to get them spinning up (generally around 5 or 6 times the wattage a drive consumes while normally operating). Still, even an HD in a machine that's powered on and off frequently should last several years and likely far outlive its obsolete date.
I shut down more often these days, just because my last HD died, and most likely because of overheating from the PC always being on.
Then again, I did just shove it between 2 disc drives and another HD, it hardly fit. So snug you didn't even have to screw it in but I did just 'cuz :lol
Then again, I did just shove it between 2 disc drives and another HD, it hardly fit. So snug you didn't even have to screw it in but I did just 'cuz :lol
Space Age Playboy
Banned
I always turn it off at night, I can't stand the on light and the hum when I'm trying to sleep. In the daytime:
Winter (and late fall/early spring): on most of the day
Summer (and late spring/early fall): off whenever I'm not actively using it
I can't believe how much this little box heats up my room.
Winter (and late fall/early spring): on most of the day
Summer (and late spring/early fall): off whenever I'm not actively using it
I can't believe how much this little box heats up my room.
cloudwalking
300chf ain't shit to me
I'm the type of person who always leaves my computer on. I picked this one specifically because it's whisper-quiet, so I can stand to have it running all the time, even when it's 4 feet away from me while I sleep.
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